amerikai:
brit:
1. To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)
2. To declare oneself (to be something).
3. To declare; to assert, affirm.
4. To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
5. To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
6. To work as a professor of; to teach.
7. To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).
1. Openly declared or acknowledged.
His professed religion was Catholicism.
2. Professing to be qualified.
She is a professed expert in mechanics.